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University of Vermont agronomy specialist Jeff Carter, who works out of the Middlebury office, recently gave adequate warning to Addison County farmers that change was coming in light of a recent agreement between the state agriculture department and the Conservation Law Foundation. In that settlement the state agreed to mandate farms whose land drain into Lake Champlain implement best management practices on their land. It&rsquo;s a substantial change from previous measures and it comes with significant consequences for those who don&rsquo;t comply.</p>
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AGRICULTURE SECRETARY CHUCK Ross addresses the crowd at a meeting in St. Albans to discuss new phosphorous reduction targets for Lake Champlain this past Wednesday evening.
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ST. ALBANS &mdash; More than 200 people packed the Bliss Auditorium in St. Albans last Wednesday night, many of them holding signs expressing their anger over the growing blue-green algae problem in Lake Champlain, to listen to a presentation on the Environmental Protection Agency&rsquo;s (EPA) plan to clean it up.</p>
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One of the attendees brought a startling visual: A bright green jar of blue-green algae, which sat at the head table of speakers during the meeting called to lay out the EPA&rsquo;s Total Maximum Daily Load (TMDL) target to the public.</p>
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<p><a href="http://www.addisonindependent.com/201508ag-secretary-chuck-ross-urges-all-lake-champlain-cleanup" target="_blank">read more</a></p>VermontFeaturedLake Champlainwater pollutionMon, 31 Aug 2015 16:53:25 +0000John McCright32337 at http://www.addisonindependent.comShoreland law seen as aiding lakes and residentshttp://www.addisonindependent.com/201507shoreland-law-seen-aiding-lakes-and-residents
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Andy Kirkaldy </div>
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FERRISBURGH &mdash; Addison County lakefront property owners have been skeptical about Vermont&rsquo;s Shoreland Protection Act, which became law in July 2014.</p>
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For example, at a February 2014 legislative breakfast in Bridport several attendees panned draft versions of the bill, and some local lawmakers also came out against it during the legislative process.</p>
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WEYBRIDGE &mdash; At the legislative breakfast at the Congregational Church of Weybridge on Monday, lawmakers discussed the future of <a href="http://www.addisonindependent.com/201504education-plan-faces-hurdles-state-senate">education reform in Vermont (see story, here</a>).</p>
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Other discussion at Monday&rsquo;s breakfast focused on:</p>
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<span style="line-height: 20.799999237060547px;">This letter is in response to the community forum &ldquo;Water pollution: Don&rsquo;t just blame farmers,&rdquo; by Emerson Lynn in the July 28 edition of the </span><em style="font-size: 13px;">Independent.</em></p>
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ERIC CLIFFORD, AN eighth-generation Starksboro farmer, was one of the first farmers to participate in a USDA program that has conserved thousands of acres of land along Vermont waterways over the last decade.
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ADDISON COUNTY &mdash; In the wake of blue-green algae outbreaks along Lake Champlain and public beaches closing due to high E. coli levels, the health of Vermont&rsquo;s freshwater resources was a hot-button issue for many Vermonters this summer.</p>
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